ComScore’s got a memo for Nielsen: It’s moving into cross-platform video and audience measurement – big time. Just days after comScore inked a multiyear measurement deal with Viacom, the first since its merger with Rentrak, it struck a strategic partnership with Adobe, the two companies revealed on Tuesday at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas. […]
LinkedIn is no Facebook, but it is a growing source of referral traffic for publishers. And as it turns to sponsored updates for more of its revenue, LinkedIn is encouraging users to spend more time scrolling through the feed – a move that will only benefit publishers posting content in that feed. Forbes, Bloomberg and […]
Adobe rolled out the Adobe Marketing Cloud Device Co-op – a cross-device system built around Adobe Analytics and the Audience Manager data management platform – at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas on Tuesday. AdExchanger first reported on Adobe’s attempt to create the data co-op last July. Adobe hopes to patch a big hole in […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and co-founder at Catchpoint Systems. Rather than pulling back, sites dependent on online advertising must find ways to circumvent the ad blocking challenge, on both desktop and […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. We have all heard about the Democratic Party’s skill with data, and there is no doubt the Obama campaign’s masterful use of first-party registration data to drive […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Sharing Is Caring Verizon made its Precision Marketing Insights (PMI) data set available to AOL, giving the digital company’s customers access to cellular data linking locations visited by the same person. PMI data will be ingested into the AOL platform team’s existing algorithms to […]
Lotame released a tool on Monday called Audience Optimizer, an add-on to its data management platform (DMP) that uses lookalike modeling to help clients target prospects who are most likely to respond to their ad. The product has helped digital agency Rise Interactive, which beta tested Lotame’s Audience Optimizer over the past six months, expand […]
Beginning Monday, GroupM will offer a solution called LIVE Panel, designed to connect WPP’s data assets (mostly those owned by Kantar and the consumer-surveying company Lightspeed) with the GroupM media-buying agencies. It’s connectivity created by formalized workflow – essentially, LIVE Panel standardizes global data sets. So the biggest beneficiaries are GroupM’s multinational clients. GroupM Analytics […]
Mobile ad revenue will grow 128% by 2018, accounting for 92% of new global advertising dollars, according to the global ad spend forecast from Publicis Groupe-owned ZenithOptimedia, released Monday. That’s an increase of $64 billion over the next three years. “Consumers are using their mobile devices to consume media in a place where they previously […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Stephen Blake, senior vice president of social delivery at Kinetic Social. For years, Facebook and Twitter have tried to convince advertisers of the value of targeting consumers within their environments. […]
Mobile viewability is going through its awkward adolescent phase. There’s no official standard yet – the Media Rating Council (MRC) is planning to circulate a document for public comment in the next few weeks – and vendors are still tinkering with their methods. Which can lead to confusion around implementation, measurement-induced headaches and wonky reporting. “Everyone is […]
Sky Media, the advertising sales arm for British telecom and broadcaster Sky, sits at the crossroads of technology and strategic investment. A new partnership with multiscreen ad-delivery tool Yospace, unveiled last Wednesday, will support dynamic ad insertions in linear streams like sports, news and entertainment on both IP and OTT devices alongside Sky’s ad server, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Things To comScore Not to call it a divorce from Nielsen, but Viacom, one of Nielsen’s most vocal critics in the broadcast community, has signed a multiyear partnership with comScore. ComScore claims its strength in digital will bolster Viacom’s portfolio and visibility into consumer […]
The solar energy industry doesn’t spring to mind as an early adopter of programmatic video – and for good reason. A basic residential solar panel system can cost anywhere between $25,000-$35,000, according to a Solar Power Authority estimate, and it takes years before the energy savings add up. So it’s safe to say solar panel […]
Ikea customers have a problem: “design paralysis.” They have a hard time envisioning how to fix their living space. Which is why Ikea’s marketing team two years ago dreamed up the “Ikea Home Tour”– a three- to five-minute show in which a team of five employees, pulled from the retail floor, travel across the country […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Venkat Krishnan, senior vice president of product at YuMe. One of the best-known stories about the early days of Google has Mel Karmazin, then the CEO of Viacom, visiting the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Will Doherty, vice president of business development at Index Exchange. The concept of scarcity tends to have a negative connotation, as anyone who has ever shopped for real estate in a hot market can […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. “A Brand New Thing” BuzzFeed received political ad money in the 2012 presidential election, but this is the first time it’s created content for campaigns, reports the industry trade Campaigns & Elections. BuzzFeed’s team made videos for Sen. Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina in […]
App publishers are constantly walking the line between user experience and making money. That’s the “main challenge” facing Baptiste Chardon, the man in charge of handling monetization for French game publisher Ubisoft’s more than 25 free-to-play mobile titles, which range from kid games to less casual offerings. An additional challenge lies in making sure that advertising […]
A handful of ad tech employees who started out at agencies are now returning to senior-level agency roles. And they’re bringing a particularly valuable blend of skills with them. According to Accuen CEO Megan Pagliuca, that initial agency experience is key. “There’s a big con of hiring people from ad tech [without an agency background] […]
Programmatic native is scaling, but the rate of progression hasn’t been rapid, according to agencies and ad tech vendors. While most major demand-side platforms (DSPs) can place ads on Facebook or Twitter – the most common strain of native inventory being social/in-feed ads – native programmatic platforms like Sharethrough, TripleLift and Nativo seek to corner […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Matthew Savare, a partner at Lowenstein Sandler LLP. Nearly three months after the FTC issued its long-awaited native advertising guidelines, the commission on Tuesday settled a complaint against Lord & […]
Almighty, an independent digital agency in Boston, revealed on Wednesday the launch of a division called Almighty(X), designed to help clients evaluate their technology stacks from budget and optimization standpoints. The goal is to provide more transparency in the agency-client relationship. Almighty(X) will be headed up by Rob Griffin, a former senior executive at French media giant […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jennifer Pelino, vice president of omnichannel media at 84.51°. Consumers are finally beginning to benefit from the increased connectivity and big data research that companies have been undertaking for the last several years. Personalization […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Instant Return In a few months, Instagram will roll out an algorithmically powered feed designed to surface posts that – hopefully – users find important. A company blog post announced the product this morning, claiming that people miss on average 70% of their feed […]
People like to talk about the next billion Internet users – but “you don’t get there by navel-gazing in North America,” said Nathan Eagle, CEO and co-founder of Boston-based Jana. Jana provides free connectivity in emerging markets where, according to a report from the International Telecommunications Union, the cost of data is often as much as […]
Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS) and Time Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new measurement product for attributing offline sales to print magazine advertising. “It’s the culmination of years of work and of a lot of pieces coming together,” said Leslie Wood, NCS chief research officer. And the product relies on a dense web of partners and […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jay Habegger, co-founder and CEO at ownerIQ. When I wrote this column last month, a major snowstorm was bearing down on New England, where I live. The storm could have […]
Purch CEO Greg Mason doesn’t see his company’s future in advertising. Instead, he says Purch’s greatest business opportunity revolves around using content to drive commerce. By getting close enough to the point of sale to earn an affiliate fee or lead gen, he sees a way out in a market “where the traditional role of […]
